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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The Republican Newspaper; Springfield, MA

Job Responsibilities:
  1. Original field reporting and photography
  2. Community engagement
  3. News aggregation
  4. Data Mining
  5. Online posting of national news links that the paper was not already covering
For the first month or so I spent much of my time on the news links and comment pages. As time went on, they got more confident and comfortable with my skills to the point were I pretty much had free reign as to how to spend my time. I had an excellent placement and I would recommend this site to any journalism majors that want to get the feel for a real news room. Working here gave me a great feel for what a career in this field might be like after graduation. The staff was helpful, kind, and very easy going.

At times during the start of my placement I had a lot of down time. It is often difficult to plan tasks for an intern because the news changes from day to day.
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